Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 1945, near the end of World War II, Germany surrendered to the Allies but Japan refused. To end the war quickly, President ...

Mori, who was 8 years old when the U.S. attacked the Japanese city, later tracked down the families of 12 American POWs in Japan who were killed in the blast.

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

It was August 6, 1945 when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The airplane carrying that bomb - built in Omaha, Nebraska. It was called the Enola Gay. It was hand picked ...

Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an atomic bomb, according to Edward Morse, a professor of nuclear engineering ...

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82', was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori, who was hugged by former US president Barack Obama during his historic visit to the city a decade ago, has died at 88, local media reported Tuesday. The ...

Earlier this month, Shigeaki Mori warned that the world was at risk of another nuclear attack over the wars in the Middle ...

Mori was eight years old when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, an attack that flattened the city and left him ...